I saw this movie for the first time and all I kept thinking was 'This guy is reaallyy selfish'. How can you just leave everything without letting know something? Cause you wanna be free? Really?
I dont like not knowing
If you think what this guy did was selfish, you better not watch "Eat. Pray. Love."
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I wasn't crazy about the movie either. Too slow. Had potential tho
shareEXTREMELY! This movie is a window of what is wrong with people these days. First of all, I will admit there have been times where I wanted to just leave it all behind and move into the Superior National Forrest in northeast Minnesota near Canada, (where I am from). It even looks quite like Alaska with the boreal forest. But running never solves a thing because you cannot run from yourself, your problems, or the world's. That is what being mature is all about.
Life is unfair, and you have to deal with it on it's terms, not run like a little p*ssy into a way of life you have NO IDEA how to live, as his death so perfectly proves. To hold this character up, or Holden Caulfield for that matter, is asinine. This 8th grade interpretation of Henry David Thoreau was nauseating.
Yes, I have made it my mission to destroy this waste of celluloid.
We have all had those thoughts of running away. But he actually did it, and I find that inspiring. At times he came of as selfish but he was just a kid trying to find himself and his place on earth.
We have all had those thoughts at that time in life and sorry to say it but most of us are extremely selfish and egoistic in that age. We just do what we feel is the right for us and don't care what others think.
Running from society does accomplish one thing; it prevents you from engaging in this superficial, hollow, materialistic *beep* of a society. If you had the choice to disengage for a while, is it really that "selfish" to accept?
shareI mean there's nothing wrong about doing what you feel right but that doesn't mean simply running away from responsibilities is a correct measure.
He simply moved away cause the root cause was friction between his parents he witnessed from his childhood.
What I truly believe is that has he ever have inkling of how his separation brought his parents together in real way, he definitely would have moved back to his city.
Loved the irony of this tragic tale. One other movie which I liked unlike this one protagonist turned back for good "The Motorcycle Diaries"
http://visualnama.com/video/558/the-motorcycle-diaries-2004/
The comparisons here to Thoreau are off base. Thoreau was a true writer and extremely talented interpretive poet. He also meticulously planned his sustenance. He was prepared for his life in the woods AND he made it out alive, comfortably even.
shareHe also meticulously planned his sustenance. He was prepared for his life in the woods AND he made it out alive
Wow. Jane seriously. I have noticed in life that strangers people who know absolutely nothing about a person are very quick to judge and to be negative toward another person. Men in general do tend to annoy women so you finding him annoying means nothing. To call him selfish is very rude. Do you have any clue what he went through in his life? His parents were seriously damaged people. He did not owe his parents anything. He gained a love for the outdoors and nature and being a free spirit through his parents though.
He as an adult made decisions based on his life experiences. Seriously look in the mirror and judge yourself not others. It is selfish for an adult to live their life as they desire? It is wrong to cut off your family when they are doing nothing but hurting you. Many people leech off of friends and family and never step out on their own. This man graduated college (could have gone on to Harvard) and was successful in everything he did, (He died because he likely poisoned himself, but in his death while dying he discovered things about himself. He left a diary in words and in pictures that touched his family and many other people.) he has touched people by his life and death that few people are ever capable of doing. His parents wanted to control him and he needed his independence from them. Most families are dysfunctional. Millions of men and women cut off brothers, sisters, fathers, mothers... etc.. and for good reason.
Seriously you can only judge one person and that is yourself.
It is tragic that he died the way he did, but he lived more in his years than many people do who live to be 100 or more.
I can understand why chris did what he did , running away from his disfunctional parents but what makes me believe he was selfish is that he just didnt run away from his bad parents but from his sister who he cared about . And even more , through his journey he made friends , real friends that loved him and cared about him even in a few months or days of knowing him and yet he kept his desire of going to alaska on top of everything else . He had impact in many lives that even before his dead, they knew that there was a major possibility that they would never meet again and yet he abandoned them for his desire of adventure in alaska. I can understand the reasons behind the entire thing but there are others ways of doing it that wont put your life at stake
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